My tax refund was offset for a few years because of a fraudulent student loan. Now that the loan has been cleared from my record can I get that money back?

Basically the title. Some added detail:

The tax refunds included tax credits so they were rather large ($2000-$5000).

I worked with the DoE to get them dismissed. Tough work, but eventually thanks to some airplane receipts it was determined I couldn’t have signed the promissory note (?) in the college’s financial aid office since I was 3,000 miles away at the time.

We weren’t doing well financially at the time, and needed the refunds to pay for child care for the year. This sent us into a downward spiral that we’ve only just now recovered from 7 years later.

My questions:

Can I reclaim these offset refunds? It would be great to use the money to pay off our car loan in under a year.

How do I initiate this process? Where do I start? The IRS? The DoE?

Thanks in advance.

Submitted December 03, 2017 at 07:59AM by MillBeeks http://ift.tt/2iECP1D